Tom Waits is perhaps the quintessential cult artist, despite recording for large labels alongside successful commercial acts for his entire career. Widely regarded as one of America’s finest ...

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...

Tom Waits already made Uproxx‘s “Best Vinyl Releases Of March 2023” list, but the storied singer-songwriter wants more. On Wednesday, July 12, it was announced that five albums he released via Island ...

Tom Waits has announced 20th anniversary vinyl reissues of his albums Alice and Blood Money. Both were originally released on May 7, 2002, and the reissues will arrive on October 7 via ANTI-. Preorder ...

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“No, thanks” might not have been the exact words executives at Elektra/Asylum, Tom Waits’ original label, communicated to their “prestige” artist when declining to release Swordfishtrombones (1983) ...

Album Preview Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live Glitter and Doom Live is a collection of the best of the best tracks from Tom Waits' sold out, highly-acclaimed Glitter and Doom tour of the US and ...

Tom Waits' new album sounds like what someone might hear while strolling through the corridors of an insane asylum for balladeers. Random blasts of pots and pans percussion coupled with Waits' ...

We await a new Tom Waits album with bated breath mainly because, in light of the centuries-old hard-living carny character he’s played since he hit the scene in 1973, it’s difficult to convince us ...

On October 4, 2004, a somewhat obscure album was released that Harp Magazine famously named as the best of the year in print, though evidence of this has been lost to time and the internet. And unless ...

Some months back, I saw Tom Waits on Leno and he just blew me away. First off, I never knew that he was the crackpot scientist from "Mystery Men". Second, I never knew he was such a good musician. His ...